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Last week there was persuasive evidence that Marilyn Monroe is a shrewd businesswoman. There was also expert testimony that she is an actress...
...bitter battle was over. Marilyn Monroe, a 5 ft. 5½ in. blonde weighing in at 118 alluringly distributed pounds, had brought to its knees mighty 20th Century-Fox, one of Hollywood's biggest corporations...
...came to a head a year ago. Fox wanted to type Marilyn once again as an emptyheaded, wriggle-hipped blonde in How to Be Very, Very Popular. Complaining that she was being miscast, and could fill a dramatic role as well as a satin sheath, Marilyn walked out. Fox promptly took her off the payroll...
...Manhattan flounced Marilyn. She incorporated herself while skeptics snickered. She studied "to improve myself" under Director Lee Strasberg at Manhattan's Actors' Studio. She caused near-riots when she appeared at Broadway openings...
Last week as the battle ended, the clear winner was Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc. (President: M. Monroe). Her contract called for her to do four movies for Fox in the next seven years, gave her approval of directors. It permitted her to do any outside movies, plays or TV appearances she chooses. Next month Marilyn will head back to Hollywood to start her first movie under the new contract. She will play an emptyheaded, wriggle-hipped blonde, but with acting possibilities, in an adaptation of William Inge's Broadway hit Bus Stop (a Monroe-approved play), directed by Josh...